The Greatest Hits is a 2024 American romantic fantasy film starring Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, David Corenswet, and Austin Crute.
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- The Greatest Hits is a 2024 American romantic fantasy film.
- It was written, produced and directed by Ned Benson.
- Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, David Corenswet, and Austin Crute star in the movie.
- The Greatest Hits had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 14, 2024.
- It was released in select theaters by Searchlight Pictures on April 5, 2024.
- A streaming release on Hulu followed on April 12, 2024.
- The film received mixed reviews from critics.
- When Harriet sits in the chair to listen to music, the setup is an homage to the Maxell cassette tape ads from the 1970s.
- David Corenswet and Lucy Boynton also starred together in The Politician (2019-)
- Similar plot to Press Play.
- It was also produced by Groundswell Productions’ Michael London and Shannon Gaulding, along with Stephanie Davis, Cassandra Kulukundis. In August 2022, Lucy Boynton was added to the cast.
- That same month Justin H. Min was added to the cast.
- In October 2022, Austin Crute was added to the cast.
- Principal photograpgy took place on location in Los Angeles, California from late August to October 2022.
- Particularly in the locations of: Downtown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Chinatown, Boyle Heights, Highland Park, Venice Beach and Agua Dulce.
- In August 2022, Searchlight Pictures acquired the rights to The Greatest Hits.
- It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 14, 2024.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 45% of 66 critics’ reviews are positive.
- The movie has an average rating of 5.7/10.
- The website’s consensus reads: “The Greatest Hits is built around a genuinely interesting idea, but it’s lost in a shallow treatment that’s too often content to rely on sentimentality.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 50 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating “mixed or average” reviews.
- Benjamin Lee gave the film two out of five stars in The Guardian, calling the film “[an] often insufferably cutesy romance.
